(IS IT A SPEAKING OR WRITING ACTIVITY?)

Identify and Provide students with sentence stems.

Identify the audience for the student (for example, table partner, small group, whole group?).

Instructional speaking Strategies to support your SIOP focuses.

Identify your timing and expectations for each activity.

Identify instructional strategy or tech tool.

a. When is the speaking EMBEDDED in the lesson?

b. Are their anticipations of the activities not being understood?

Discrete and explicit checks throughout daily lessons.

Identify one discrete check and one explicit check.

How will you provide academic feedback to the student?

How will you adjust when students are not reaching the expectations?

Are you providing constructive and positive feedback to students?

Identify how the results of the assessment will impact your instruction.

Locate historical data (state, district, and local).

For example, STAAR 2022, 2023, biology b.5G performance of the TEK.

Do we need to adjust our practices and lessons relating to the TEKSs?

How will we make the adjustment?

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"If we are not teaching with emotion, we are not teaching for memory."

Kagan Strategy: AllRecord Consensus

1. The teacher provides a question with multiple possible answers or multiple questions, then selects a student on each team to begin.

2. Selected students suggest the first answer (For example, the person with the longest hair in your group answers first).

3. Teammates put thumbs up, down, or sideways to indicate agreement, disagreement, or doubt (Give students sentence frames to use).

4. If teammates agree, all students write the answer on their own paper. If there is a disagreement or doubt, the team discusses the answer until an agreement is reached. The answer must be written in complete sentences. To elicit emotion: Students cheer each time they reach a consensus or when complete. Positive emotion is elicited each time students reach a consensus.

5. The process is continued, and each student, in turn, suggests an answer.

Reading Ruler